6 week old night time grunter

[lourobert]

My dd is now 6 weeks and shes a little diva in many ways......only wanting to sleep whilst being held during day,quite frequent fussy periods etc. She is in with us at night n a moses. She is fine up until waking for a feed but after her night feed just grunts and moans and snorts (just like a little piglet ;) ) and writhes around with arms and legs flailing around.......anyone else experienced this?

Is there anything i can do or is she likely to grow out of this as she matures???

TIA

DS2 was like a wee hedgehog, omg the NOISE

it does get better, but as always if you have any concerns consult Dr/HV

NB she's not being a diva, she's doing what babies do - they need to be held close, to sleep upon you; have you tried swaddling arms for the flailing?

One of mine couldn't bear swaddling, the other one liked it.

PS sniff her head for me, please

thanks for the reply...i wil mention it as our 8 week appt. Im not overly worried but it is driving me crazy. some ppl have said put her in her own room but shes way too small for that yet!!
I use the diva word as a term of endearment really. im making the most of her wanting to be cuddled asI know in time she wont want to be hugged so much ( shes currently on chest with laptop balanced on one knee!)

She hates being swaddled.....makes her so angry. I keep trying though as one day she might decide she likes it :)

head sniffed :)

Mine is a bit like this at night at the moment (7 weeks). It's because he's trying to get his thumb in his mouth. Once it's in, he's fine! Poor little buggers with their uncontrolabe bodies!

Mine was exactly like this after night feeds. I resorted to co-sleeping chest to chest as it was the only way DS was comfortable and I could get some sleep. By then i had mentioned it to the GP and the HV, and received no advice other than "he'll grow out of it" which isn't what a sleep deprived new mum needs to hear. Could it be silent reflux? Have you tried elevating one end of the moses basket slightly?

DS got better from about 12 weeks and went back into his moses basket then.

My little boy's the same - such loud grunting! With him it's trying to get poos and farts out. It always gets worse in the early morning (from about 4 on). I think it might be because he's been horizontal for a while by then and so things aren't passing through him so easily. DS1 had this too and he grew out of it (can't remember when annoyingly!) Checked with dr this time too who confirmed it was just his immature digestive system and will get better in time. I put a fan on which helps me sleep a bit better (I love white noise).

My DS (now 16 months) did this too! I think it's quite common in newborns. We did however, discover that he had mild reflux and it was suggested that the grunting and writhing around could have been a sign of discomfort. From then on, he slept on his front (not everyone's cup of tea I know!) but it seemed to stop the snorting/grunting/flailing around!
Good luck

My 6 week old DS is the same, the noise he makes is unbelievable my DP has to sleep in the spare room. He has really bad wind as well so I am assuming its trying to clear everything out. I have resorted to ear plugs, he is right next to me in his Moses basket and I always wake for his feeds but the ear plugs seem to work well. My DS 1 was rhe same but not as loud, can't remember when it stopped but I think about 10-12 weeks.

Yep, my nearly 11 week old DS is unbelievably loud at night. I do swaddle him, which reduces the arm flailing but doesn't do much for the leg movement. The noises are horrendous though and I'm so sleep deprived I could cry (and did this morning). He sleeps well, only waking for one feed in the night, but that doesn't really matter when he spends the rest of the night moaning and farting like an aging terrier. DH seems to be able to sleep through the worst of it.

You have my sympathy.

DS was just the same, his nickname was piglet for the first few weeks, I think I may have posted about it on here actually, it's all a bit hazy, but I do know I ended up quite missing it when it stopped. If it is stopping you sleeping you could try ear plugs, block out the snorting but not enough to stop you waking up when they cry.

I used ear plugs & got dh to sleep on the baby's side of the bed as it didn't bother him so much!

My DD did this. By the time I'd fed, burped and changed her and put her back in her moses she'd grunt, squawk and snuffle for 20 mins before settling down quietly. Then DP would start with the snoring and I'd finally get 1 hours sleep before we started the process all over again!

We moved DD out to her room at 2 months as my sleep deprivation was just too much to bear. I slept much, much better afterwards.

She probably grew out of it at about the same time. Now her night vocal activity is singing to herself and yelling 'mama, mama....MAMA!' at the top her voice! She's 10mo.

And try swaddling to stop the flailing. DD was swaddled from birth and slept so well. It really stopped the jerking waking her up.

Good luck and hope you have a 'silent night' tonight!

Sorry Lou - just seen your post re hating swaddling!

Yep mine were like this, they slept and I didn't - I too moved mine out very early because of severe sleep deprevation whilst they slept like logs!!!!

Another one here, he grunts and squeals and now has a blocked nose so I'm anticipating no sleep tonight, so glad it's not just me, and with all the flailing, he's desperate to get his thumb in his mouth but spends more time whacking himself in the face so wakes himself up, he's currently snoring which is a new sound I've not heard before he's just turned six weeks.

Mine did this, especially DS2. I had a fan on in the room and earplugs in. Not sure whether it had any bearing on the noise, but as soon as he could roll over he slept much better - he used to thrash around.....wanted to sleep on his tummy!

He sleeps quietly now at 22 months, but still is all over the cot, we hear him bashing his head into the ends over the monitor (doesn't wake him though....)

thanks for your replies.....im not the only one theres comfort to be had in that!!! We too call dd piglet

Im reading a good book at the moment called ' the happiest baby on the block' and it makes alot of sense. It talks about the first 3 months being th 4th the babys 4th trimester and that in this time they need the womb environment recreated. It talks about swaddling in there and Ive got back to it the past 2 nights, she fought it like crazy ( as the book as she would) but then once relaxed slept well. She slept 10 til 4 this morning. She is still such a little fuss-pot during the day though. She wont sleep unless in arms and awake in 5 minutes once put down. With a 6 year old severly disabled son ,who is dependant for al his care to look after, this can be very challenging! Hoping she grows out of it'

it says 'fussy' babies realy need this 4th trimester where as other babies may not need it so much. It also says that after a feed the babys tummy has to work hard to make room for it and some babies have more difficulty with this hence the grunting etc.

I think il invest in some ear plugs today. thankyou